Water Lily oblige!?
Answers: If the lily is from Walmart, probability are you got it surrounded by one of those "drop-in-and-go" mesh baskets? The mesh baskets are great for starters, but they lack the other macronutrients a lily requests to thrive. That's why they include the fertilizer tablets. I would recommend buying a "LRG SQUARE BASKET " from Amazon or a pond supply store, flling it with potting soil adjectives around the lily roots, and top it off by a partly inch of pea gravel. Push one fertilizer tablet into the center near the roots of the lily and cross your fingers. Good Luck!
P.S. I customarily don't advocate the use of pond fertilizers or potting soil, as they typically front to a macronutrient overload and fuel numerous algae problems. There are better ways to pot the lily once it recovers. Let me know when you are primed.
You do have too tons fish. Have you got some sort of aerator?
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